Dear colleagues,
It is my pleasure to send you the call for papers and posters for the
CERME8-WG1 "Argumentation and proof".
For more information on the congress, you are invited to visit the
CERME8 website
http://www.cerme8.metu.edu.tr
Best regards
Viviane Durand-Guerrier
Chair of the CERME8-WG1
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CERME 8: Working Group 1
Argumentation and proof
Leaders
Viviane Durand-Guerrier (France) vdurand at math.univ-montp2.fr
Samuele Antonini (Italy)  Kirsten Pfeiffer (Ireland)  Gabriel
Stylianides (United Kingdom)
Scope and Focus of WG1
Papers presented in the last ERME Conferences illustrate the great
variety of approaches to research in this field, offering a wide
spectrum of perspectives, intertwining educational issues with
explicit references to mathematical, logical, historical,
philosophical, epistemological, psychological, curricular,
anthropological or sociological issues. The richness of diversity gave
the participants the opportunity of a fruitful discussion, stimulating
not only the interest of comparison but also the curiosity of
undertaking a possible integration and the need of enhancing the
development of international collaborations.
Call for papers and poster proposals
The organisers for Working Group 1 invite research-based papers on
argumentation and proof, teaching and learning issues, classroom
situations, clinical studies, dissemination and vulgarisation. We will
be particularly interested in theoretical, empirical or developmental
papers that address one or more of the following themes (though any
papers of relevance to the overall focus of the group will also be
considered):
1. The importance of experience, explanation, justification,
argumentation and proof and their relationships in mathematics and in
mathematics education.
2. The role of logic and language in teaching, learning and
analysing proof and proving process.
3. The designing activity fostering argumentation and proof
skills along the curriculum from kinder garden to university, and in
teacher training.
4. The use, evolution, elaboration or integration of
theoretical frames relevant for research argumentation and proof in an
educational perspective.
These issues will be considered from the following points of view:
(a) Historical, philosophical, and epistemological, related to the
nature of argumentation and proof, their functions in mathematics in
an historical perspective, including contemporaneous mathematics;
(b) Cognitive, concerning the processes related to argumentation and
proof: cognitive process involved in production of conjectures,
interpretation, evaluation and construction of proofs, elaboration of
axiomatic; the effect on teaching and learning proof on students'
performance in mathematics etc.;
(c) Social-cultural aspects for student construction of proofs;
(d) Educational, based on the analysis of students' thinking in
approaching proof and proving, and implications for the design of
curricula.
Papers and poster proposals should use the CERME word template, and
conform to the guidelines at http://www.cerme8.metu.edu.tr. To submit
it, you must email your paper as a WORD document to Viviane
Durand-Guerrier at vdurand at math.univ-montp2.fr, AND at the same time
to the conference secretariat at accerme8 at metu.edu.tr. If possible
please also send a pdf version in addition to the WORD document.
Reviews and Decisions
Each paper will be peer-reviewed by three persons from among those who
submit papers to this Working Group. Please expect to be asked to
review up to three papers yourself between 15th September and 22nd
October 2012. It may be necessary for you to revise your paper before
final acceptance. Please reserve some time to do this in the second
half of November. The group leaders will decide about the acceptance
of posters.
Important dates
15th September 2012: Deadline for submission of papers.
1st October 2012: Deadline for submission of poster proposals
22nd October 2012: Deadline for reviewers to submit their reviews.
1st December 2012: Deadline for revisions to papers.
Viviane DURAND-GUERRIER
Université Montpellier 2
Département de mathématiques
I3M, ACSIOM
Bureau 324
Tel bureau : 04 67 14 35 81
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